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Claude Aurelius Elliott

Sir Claude Aurelius Elliott OBE, MA, (27 July 1888 - 21 November 1973) was Head Master of Eton College at Windsor in Berkshire, and was later Provost at the same school.

He had an undistinguished scholastic career at Eton, but on going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, he discovered a natural bent as an historian, taking his BA in 1909, and becoming a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1910, and a Tutor in 1914.

In 1949, after sixteen years as Head Master, Elliott was appointed Eton College's Provost, a post he held until 1965.

Claude Elliott

Claude Aurelius Elliott (1888–1973), headmaster and later Provost of Eton College in the United Kingdom



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